The homemade float is actually a process that anglers enjoy themselves, experiencing the pleasure of making it by hand, and imagining the artistic conception of using their own handmade float with their own name while fishing in the mountains and water. My process is for friends who are beginners in making floats, and the tools can be easily found.
First, prepare the tools: utility knife, cotton thread, scissors, sandpaper (both coarse and fine), pen, ruler, tape, 502 adhesive, etc.
Prepare the materials: southern reed (requires roundness and straightness), float tail paint (red, orange, yellow, green, black), white glue, float tail (fiberglass braid), float foot (carbon fiber rod).
Now let's start the production:
Step 1: Take a section of southern reed with good roundness and straightness (also known as reed), and sand both ends on fine sandpaper until flat.
Step 2: Wrap insulation tape around the southern reed, leaving a distance for cutting the shoulder part (mine is two centimeters).
Step 3: Divide the cross section of the shoulder into eight equal parts.
Step 4: Use a cross-cutting method (cross-shaped cutting method) to cut until the insulation tape.
Step 5: Directly cut the float shoulder (leaving space for polishing).
Step 6: Cut the float foot, divide the cross section of the float foot into two equal parts, and cut down to the insulation tape.
Step 7: Use a ruler to draw lines to prepare for cutting the float foot.
Step 8: Cut along the drawn lines, preferably using a pulling motion instead of pressing, and roll the outside while cutting. After cutting, it should look like this.
Step 9: Polish the cut float foot (use coarse sandpaper first, then finer sandpaper).
Step 10: Use the prepared float foot (carbon fiber rod) to press a mark on the inside of the polished float foot.
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